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We stopped donating to your open source project every month. Here's why. We believe keeping OSS maintainers motivated and showing them we value their work can help prevent burnout. So we're starting a new process for frontend solutions: 🧵

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Evil Martians

@evilmartians.com

2 Apr

1. Meeting once a year to create a list of OSS and maintainers we follow, use, and find value in. 2. Donating to 15 projects a year that we believe are changing the industry, and have little to no support. 3. Making a one-time donation to each project so the maintainer can actually enjoy it.

Evil Martians

@evilmartians.com

2 Apr

This matters a lot to us. We see how maintainers lose motivation and stop believing in their projects. This is our small contribution to show up for the open source community and the people who are altruistically keeping the industry moving.

Evil Martians

@evilmartians.com

2 Apr

See, businesses are built on top of solutions they didn't build and don't control. And deep in the back, there are tired, underfunded, and unrecognized maintainers doing a ton of work to keep our industry afloat, with no reward.

Evil Martians

@evilmartians.com

2 Apr

Unpaid OSS maintainers are also especially vulnerable to security threats. They lack the dedicated time, resources, and organizational support needed to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats. We want to help change that.